ACTAeA RACEMOSA

ACTAeA RACEMOSA. [Act. rac.] (Or Cimicifuga.). Black Cohosh. Jeanes. Ranunculaceae.

► Desire for solitude ; to wander from place to place. ► Answers questions hurriedly and evasively. ► Would not answer, at other times very loquacious. ► Declares she will go crazy. ► Weeping mood ; dejection ; anxiety ; apprehensiveness. ► Melancholia from hyperaesthesia of nervous centres ; hence with women, with inebriates, etc. ► Fear of death -thinks she is going to die. ► Mental depression, with suicidal tendency. ► Suspicious, in different, taciturn, takes no interest in household matters. ► Irritable, least thing that goes wrong makes her angry. ► Mania following disappearance of neuralgia. ► After fright, threatened abortion. ► Aggravations from mental emotions. ► Mind affected by business failure ; by disappointed love.

► Constant dull feeling in vertex. ► Vertigo : head feels large and heavy ; when stooping, head swims ; on rising in morning ; nausea when raising the head from the pillow. ► Fainting fits.

► Rush of blood to the head, brain feels too large for the cranium ; after suppressed uterine discharges or suddenly ceasing pains. ► Waving sensations in the brain. ► Dull frontal headache relieved by pressure. ► Great pain in head and eyeballs, increased by the slightest movement. ► Severe pains in right side of head, back of orbit. ► Aching and shooting pains in vertex, occiput left temple, eye and ear ; worse lying down ; hysterical crying. ► Top of head feels as if it would fly off. ► Head feels too large and throbs. θ Intermittent fever. ► Intense pain as if a bolt had been driven from neck to vertex, worse at every throb of the heart.

► Dark spots before the eyes, dilated pupils, double vision. ► Intense pains in the eyeballs ; worse from moving the head or eye, and in the evening. ► Severe pain in the centre of the eyeballs ; worse in the morning, lasts all day ; worse going up stairs.

► Sensitive to least noise. ► Singing in the left, later in both ears.

► Coryza, dry in the evening, white mucus during the day ; sneezing ; aching pain in the head and eyes, sensitive to cold air, every inhalation seems to bring the cold air in contact with the brain.

► Wild fearful expression. ► Face pale ; eyes large, sunken, surrounded by dark rings. ► Forehead feels cold ; deadly pale. ► Neuralgia affecting, the malar bone, pain goes off at night, reappears the next day. ► Frequent flushes of heat, wants to be lie in the open air.

► Under-lip cracked, as if bitten. ► Jaw sunken.

► Toothache in neuralgic and rheumatic patients.

► Taste : disagreeable ; coppery. ► Cannot speak a syllable, though she makes the effort. ► Speaking : 27. ► Tongue : clean, but pointed and trembling ; swollen ; coated light brown, in the middle.

► Breath offensive. ► Mouth and tongue feel hot and dry.

► Dry spot in the throat, causing cough ; dryness of the pharynx, with constant desire to swallow ; fulness in the pharynx ; uvula and palate swollen. ► Hawks up a viscid, coppery tasting mucus.

► No thirst, slight feeling of hunger in stomach ; rumbling in abdomen. ► Appetite variable. ► No appetite for dinner, wants to drink cold water ; little at a time suffices.

► Eructations, with nausea, vomiting and headache. ► Vomiting of green substance ; groans, raves, presses both hands to her head for relief.

► Acute darting pains in the stomach. ► Sinking or "goneness" in the epigastrium.

► Periodically colicky pains, bending double and after stool. ► Flatulence, causing sensation of fullness. ► Severe pains in bowels, small of back and down the limbs. ► Excruciating pains in bowels, much rumbling and wind. ► Sharp pain across the hypogastrium. ► Abdominal muscles sore.

► Frequent, thin, dark, offensive stools. θ Spotted fever. ► Morning diarrhoea, of children. ► Pains go from limbs to bowels, producing diarrhoea and partial retention of urine. ► Alternate diarrhoea and constipation.

► Pressing in region of kidneys and small of back. ► Irritable bladder. ► Urine : profuse, pale, watery ; bloody, frequent, scanty, feels hot.

► Spasms of the broad ligaments. ► Ovarian pains shoot up to the side. ► Severe pain in lower part of abdomen, worse by motion. ► Bearing down in uterine region and small of back ; limbs feel heavy, torpid. ► Great tenderness on pressure over the uterine region. ► Menses : profuse, early, dark, blood coagulated ; scanty, slightly coagulated ; sharp pains across abdomen, has to double up ; labor-like pains ; debility between periods, scanty flow between menses ; suppressed by mental emotions, from cold, from fever. ► Rheumatic dysmenorrhoea. ► Epileptic or hysterical spasms at time of menses. ► Leucorrhoea, with sensation of weight in the uterus.

► Complaints in pregnancy ; nausea ; false labor-like pains ; sharp pains across abdomen ; sleeplessness ; insanity. ► Labor-pains severe, tedious or spasmodic, with fainting fits or cramps. ► Cardiac neuralgia in parturition. ► Convulsions in labor from nervous excitement. ► "Shivers", first stage of labor. ► After-pains, worse in the groins : oversensitiveness ; nausea and vomiting. ► Lochia : suppressed, by cold or emotions ; watery, mixed with small clots. ► Inframammary pains, worse left side. ► Burning in the mammae.

► Hoarseness, worse in the evening ; very sensitive to cold air. ► Tickling in throat, with violent cough.

► Frequent sighing.

► From a dry spot in the throat, spasmodic with pain in back of neck. ► Cough at every attempt to speak, dry, short, constant at night.

► Severe pain in the left chest, below fifth or sixth rib. ► Pain in right side of chest ; must lie quietly on back and press with the hand ; breath short ; slight cough.

► Pains from the region of the heart, all over the chest and down the left arm ; palpitation ; unconsciousness ; cerebral congestion ; dyspnoea, face livid ; cold sweat on the hands ; numbness of the body ; the left arm numb and as if bound to the side. ► Heart's action ceases suddenly ; impending suffocation. ► Pulse : weak, irregular, eighty per minute ; feeble in the morning ; with trembling and weakness.

► Cramp in the muscles of the neck on moving the head. ► Violent, lightning-like pains in the posterior spinal sclerosis. ► Stiff neck from cold air, pain from moving even the hands. ► Sensitiveness of the spine, especially in the cervical and upper dorsal regions ; pressure causes retching and nausea, soreness of all the muscles. θ Spotted fever. ► Heat in back of head extending down the back ; during spasms, muscles of neck and shoulders sore afterwards. ► Pain under left scapula. ► Head and neck retracted. θ Spotted fever. ► Severe pain in the back, down the thighs and through the hips, with heavy pressing down. ► Violent aching in small of back.

► Pains in the muscles, worse from motion. ► Left arm feels as if bound to the side. ► Constant irregular motions of the left arm ; arm useless. ► Cold sweat on hands. ► Hands tremble, especially when writing.

► Joints swollen, heat in them. ► Fearful pains through the lower limbs, like growing pains.

► Aching in the limbs. ► Excessive muscular soreness. ► Rheumatism affecting the belly of the muscles ; cramping, stitching pains. ► Uneasy feeling in limbs, causing restlessness.

► Motion : 3, 23, 31 ; of head : 5 ; of eyes : 5 ; of handwriting : 32. Stooping : 2. Bending double : 19. Raising head : 2. Rising : 2. Going up stairs : 5. Lying : 3 ; on back : 28.

► Trembling of the legs, twitching of the flexors. ► Great debility between the menses. ► Irregular motion of the limbs, worse left ; legs unsteady. ► Alternate tonic and clonic spasms. ► Epilepsy, periodical convulsions, uterine diseases. ► Hysteric spasms.

► Comatose. ► Sleeplessness ; with excited brain ; after nursing the sick. ► Starts during sleep ; restless. ► Cannot sleep, because she feels numb all over. ► Unrefreshing sleep.

► Day : 5, 7. Morning : 2, 5, 20, 29, 40. "11-12 M." : 40. Evening : 5, 7, 25, 40. Night : 8, 27, 40.

► Cold air : 7, 25, 31. Open air : 8.

► Chilliness down the back, from 11 to 12 M. ► Chilliness, then heat ; languid, stretches her limbs, 10 A.M. ► Feet and hands cold, then hot. ► Chill, then heat, then sweat, alternating dry skin, 5 P.M. ► Night-sweats. θ Diarrhoea. ► Sweat smell offensive.

► Periodical attacks of colic. ► Pains come on suddenly. ► Headache at intervals.

► Right : side of head, of chest, see 28. ► Left : temple, see 3 : inframammary pain, chest below 5th and 6th ribs, from heart down the arm, arm as if bound to side, motions in it, asleep, comp. 36, back below scapula. ► Singing in ear : left them both.

► Pricking all over. ► Like electric shocks here and there. ► Sharp, lancinating pains in various parts, associated with ovarian or uterine irritation. ► General bruised feeling as if sore. ► Whole body, especially the arms, feels numb.

► Pressure : 3, 16, 23, 28.

► Eruption of white, pustules over the face and neck ; sometimes large, red, papular. ► Prickling itching, heat of the whole surface.

► Climacteric years. ► Nervousness from anxiety or overexertion. ► Rheumatic persons. ► Children, teething. θ Diarrhoea.

► Collaterals : Act. spic., and other Ranunculaceae. ► Acon. relieves the sleeplessness. ► Act. spic., Bryon and Pulsat. similar in rheumatism. The first is preferable in rheumatism of small joints, tearing pains ; joints ache after exercise. ► Baptis. relieved headache and nausea. ► Cauloph. similar in uterine and rheumatic affections. ► Compare : Pulsat., Sepia, Natr. mur., Lil. tig. and Ignat.